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No. 232,777. Patented Sept. 28, 1880.

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Machine for Waxing or Varnis hing Paper.

No. 232,777. I Patented Sept. 28,1880.

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JOHN W. SUTTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,777, dated September Application filed August 17, 1880. (N 0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. SUTTON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Waxing or Varnishing Paper or other Analogous Material; and 1 do declare that the following is a clear, full, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to the method and means employed for waxing, varnishing, and polishing paper or other fibrous or textile material.

The object I have in view is to provide a means whereby paper or other analogous material can be covered and saturated with wax, paraffine, or covered with quick-drying varnishes or paints.

My improvement consists in heating the paper or other material subsequent to its deivery from the reel or other form of package,

prior to its coming in contact with melted wax, paraffine, or other finishing material, and in continuing and retaining the heat about the coated material a suitable distance and length of time after leaving the point of contact with said coating material, and also in applying the heat to the same side of the material while in transit through the apparatus.

Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of the apparatus for coating the surface of paper or other analogous material. Fig. 2 represents a top plan of the same.

(J represents the frame-work of the apparatus. G and G are reels for letting off and taking up paper or other material while passing through the apparatus. t t represent the material in transit. c c are friction guide-rolls which support the material. D D are pipes, connected with each other by means of headers or return-bends, for the purpose of conducting hot liquids, steam, or heated gases, whereby a suitable degree of heat can be maintained for keeping the coating material in a proper condition tovfiow over the surface of the substance to be coated, and to assist in drying the same prior to its being taken up by reel G.

E and F represent a case or covering which surrounds the heating device and guide-rolls, for the purpose of deflecting and retaining the heat about the material which is to be and has been coated while on its way through said inclosure.

A represents the tank or receiver for bold ing the coating material. a are pipes for conducting heat to said material. It is a bar which contains a series of spigots or plugs which fit into a corresponding number of orifices on the bottom of the tank. When the coating material is to be discharged the bar is raised and regulated by the screw h, after which the melted material will drip down into the apron c, and thence flow down beneath the heated pipe B and escape through the perforations in the apron beneath the heated pipe B, thence with the moving paper or other material. 0 6 represent pulleys for turning the guide-rolls.

The operation of my invention is as follows The paper is passed from reel G over roll 6, thence beneath a series of heating-pipes, D, which heat the paper to a suitable degree prior to its coming in contact with the melted Wax or paraffine. This is done for the purpose of driving off any moisture that may be in the paper, and to allow the melted wax or paraffine to penetrate quickly and diffuse itself through every part of the paper. After the paper is filled with the heated wax it is kept hot by passing it beneath a series of heated pipes or beneath a heated surface, but not in contact therewith. This continued heating is for the purpose of keeping the wax or paraffine melted, so that it will flow evenly over the surface of the paper, and present after leaving the apparatus a polished surface, or a surface analogous to a coat of varnish when flowed on the work and allowed to dry. The flow-surface must not come in contact with the pipes or otherheating-surface, as they would abrade the surface while in transit.

The roll G should be so far removed from the heating device that the wax or paraffine will have time to 0001 prior to its being taken up on the reel.

The quantity graduated by the speed of the paper the discharge from the tank.

of wax or paraifiue can be or by The moving parts driven by power ob contrivance, or by hand-power.

1. In an paper, the combination 0 wax is melted, apron c, a D for heating ing device 10 its passage paper or 2. In an appa other fib apparatus for prepari beneath the apron c an of this apparatus canbe tained from mechanical secure by Letn g Waxed f a tank in which the nd pipe B, the heatthe paper prior to d heatingratus for Waxin g or varnishing rous or textile material, the combination of a device for distributing melted wax, paraffine, or other similar substance or 15 substances which are liquid, but dry quickly when spread out in thin coats, and a heating device for heating the material to be coated prior to its contact with the melted or liquid substance, and the heating device for heating 20 and causing the melted or liquid substance to flow and dry While passing through. the apparatus.

JOHN W. SUTTON.

Witnesses:

THos. S. BURR, JAMES MALCOMSON. 

